Adams County Pennsylvania Obituaries Extracted From The Centinel, Gettysburg, Pa., 1805-1813

1805-1813 Obituaries from the Centinel in Gettysburg, Adams County Pennsylvania.

BAKER, Jacob, Obituary

Trenton, New Jersey, Jan. 1.
Melancholy Occurrence
On the evening of the 25th ult., one of the workmen attending the Fulling Mill of Mr. Jacob Baker, on the Assanpiak, a few miles from this place, by the name of Morton, was suddenly deprived of his life, in the most distressing manner. It is supposed (no other person being in the mill at the time the accident happened) that, in some almost unaccountable manner, his clothes or limbs were caught by the machinery, and his body thus precipitated into the trough where the hammers play. In this situation it was mangled in the most shocking manner. A brother working in an adjoining building, finding the mill had stopped, which was effected by the obstruction which the body of the deceased had occasioned in the play of the machinery, hastened into the mill where the distressing spectacle of the mangled corpse of his deceased relative but too painfully explained the cause. [The Centinel, (Gettysburg, PA), April 4, 1810]

BARTHOLOMEWS, John Obituary

At Harwinton, April 9, as Mr. John Bartholomews, aged 48, was dressing flax, he died without a struggle, and the flax remained in his hand. [The Centinel, (Gettysburg, Pa.), July 4, 1810]

CRAIG, Thomas, Obituary

Died in Millerstown, on Thursday last, in the 75th year of his age, Thomas Craig, Esq. He had long contemplated a removal from his native place in Bucks County Pa to spend the evening of his days in the society of his children. His friends but just hailed his arrival when he was attacked by the epidemic, under which he languished but a few days. [The Centinel (Gettysburg, Pa.) April 28, 1813]

DUNCAN, Susan W., Obituary

Departed this life, October 10th, 1808 at Princetown, New Jersey, Miss Susan W. Duncan, late of Gettysburg, after bearing for several months the affliction of a lingering complaint, with Christian fortitude and resignation. [The Centinel, (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), October 26, 1808]

GRISWOLD, Roger Obituary

Death of Governor Griswold
Sunday, the 25th inst., closed the days of his Excellency Roger Griswold, Esq., Governor of the state of Connecticut, in the 51st year of his age. His remains were the day following removed from Norwich (where he had been detained by sickness) to his late residence in Lyme. The corpse was met at the north end of town by a large concourse of citizens, who walked in procession to the town adjoining. The shops were all shut ? business suspended - minute guns fired from Fort Trumbull, and the vessels in the harbor displayed their flags half mast, as a testimonial of respect to the deceased.

As a man, a neighbor, and a friend, those who most intimately knew Governor Griswold, were those who most affectionately loved him. Warm in his attachments, he was not hasty in forming them, but, once formed, they were as lasting as their object was deserving. No little jealousy ? no small cunning, no petty intrigue, instigated by envy or malice, ever dated to solicit his countenance or support. To meanness and the artful expedients of low minds, he was constitutionally and irreconcilably an enemy, a fast friend, to frank, liberal and high minded men.

While at the Bar as an advocate, he was distinguished by merit peculiarly his own. The brilliancy and dazzling orators were beneath him - his mind aspired to nobler fame.

Possessed of uncommon logical powers, he intuitively saw, and boldly sieved prominent and leading points of controversy, and disdaining to amuse, if he could not persuade, his whole force was irresistibly and successfully applied to ensure conviction. While others expended their strength in skirmishing with the outposts, he marched with a uniform pace and steady eye, to the citadel, from which no fear could appall and no danger deter him.

In this crisis of our political affairs the death of this eminently great man has occasioned a loss, to supply which we look with solicitude and in vain for his successor. Of his talents as a statesman, both when in Congress and since his election as chief magistrate of Connecticut, he has left the world a most faithful and imperishable Record. With a mind clear and discriminating, and which saw the consequences and effects of measures with the accuracy or prescience, with integrity and independence, flexible at no time, and yielding to no circumstances, with liberal and comprehensive views or general policy and superior to the ambition of being popular, by the sacrifice of a single sentiment, he united the unbounded confidence and attachment of his political friends with the respect and esteem even of his political enemies. No man has given such illustrious proof of having been taught in the school and guided by the principles of Washington, the father of his country. [The Centinel, (Gettysburg,Pennsylvania), November 18 1812]

HINMAN, Capt. Elisha Obituary

Died lately, at New London, Capt. Elisha Hinman, aged 74. This venerable gentleman was one of the ablest marine officers who shone in the struggle for our independence. On many trying occasions he evinced great steed and bravery, and was entrusted by a discerning government with the command of several rational vessels – the most important of which was the frigate Alfred. His talents as a warrior were adorned by the Christian virtues; to alleviate the horrors of war, with him was equally a duty and pleasure, and his vanquished enemy often became his warmest friend. Having suffered almost a total loss of his property in the conflagration of that city by the British troops, the close of the war found his means inadequate to the necessities of a growing family, and he was compelled in the wane of life to risk a constitution shattered by the privations, anxieties and labors of war, to seek in an inhospitable climate the means of lightening the cares of his declining years. Having returned home in moderate circumstance, the command of the Revenue cutter was offered him by President Washington, but it was not then convenient for him to accept it; on the death of Capt. Maitbie, in 1798 this sinecure, which had now become desirable to him, and to which by his talents and his services he was justly entitled, was given him by President Adams -- the duties of which humble station he performed with scrupulous attention and fidelity. He continued in the office till the year 1802, when, without any cause being assigned, and without any being known, except that he had been uniformly the friend of the administrations of Washington and Adams, he was removed in favor of the present commander, a man of different political principles. The intrepid warrior who had often braved his country’s foes at the cannon’s mouth, who when captured in the Alfred, fought for several glasses a very superior force, the real patriot, the man of high and honorable feelings, whose heart had never been appalled by danger, surrendered at a single broadside of ingratitude. To this period he uniformly supported a character remarkably distinguished by the practice of the Christian and the moral virtues. From the time of his being turned out of office, the weight of years grew doubly heavy, the vital blow was struck; the remainder of his life was merely a lingering death. He died highly respected by a very numerous acquaintance. Thus are rewarded the heroes of 76. [The Centinel, (Gettysburg, Pa.), October 21, 1807]

MARE, Daniel Obituary

Harrisburgh, April 4, 1812 - On Thursday last, a foreigner, by name of Daniel Mare or Marie, a German, who has for about 6 months past, kept a store in this borough, shot himself through his head with a musket, near this town. The shot not having proved effectual, it is said he had completed the loading his gun for another trial when he was discovered. His reason for this rash attempt is said to be on account of his reduced situation from affluence. [The Centinel, (Gettysburg, Pa.), April 15, 1812]

NOLTON, Mrs. Obituary

Near Litchfield, (Conn.). April 14, a Mr. and Mrs. Nolton, became, as is supposed, intoxicated; and by way of concluding their drunken frolic, he helped his wife to hang herself. She was found dead hanging to a staple in the wall, and Nolton is bound over to take his trial. [The Centinel, (Gettysburg, Pa.), July 4, 1810]